Gladly the Cross-Eyed Bear
By Ed McBain
1996
First Published
3.74
Average Rating
336
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Part of Series
Lainie Commins, a freelance designer of children's toys, hires attorney Matthew Hope for a lawsuit against her old employers, Brett and Etta Toland. At stake are the lucrative rights to Gladly, a teddy bear with crossed eyes and corrective lenses. It's a straightforward case—until Brett Toland is shot in the throat aboard his luxury yacht and Lainie becomes the chief suspect. From elegant canals to sunbaked ghettos, McBain has done for Florida's Gulf Coast what he did for the 87th Precinct—created a teeming world where justice is elusive and where the saints and sinners are often one and the same.
Avg Rating
3.74
Number of Ratings
621
5 STARS
20%
4 STARS
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3 STARS
27%
2 STARS
8%
1 STARS
2%
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Ed McBain
Author · 87 books
"Ed McBain" is one of the pen names of American author and screenwriter Salvatore Albert Lombino (1926-2005), who legally adopted the name Evan Hunter in 1952. While successful and well known as Evan Hunter, he was even better known as Ed McBain, a name he used for most of his crime fiction, beginning in 1956. He also used the pen names John Abbott, Curt Cannon, Hunt Collins, Ezra Hannon, Dean Hudson, Evan Hunter, and Richard Marsten.
